Portal de Cartagena
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The Cartagena Security Park last night showed unusual activity, proper to the celebration of the bonfires of San Juan, and despite the fact that during the morning and afternoon yesterday mounted preventive services by firefighters had detected 30 incidents in other many bonfires prepared to burn at night, they are not to be corrected damage to nearby homes or vehicles.
During the night the troops fighting the City of Cartagena made 38 departures motivated by different entity fires, caused by fires and vandalism, which ended with 12 containers of waste burned.
By local police, there were 22 incidents for reasons similar to those of firefighters.
The accumulation of services was necessary in addition to the three crews on duty at the park, we had to assemble a staff that supported more firefighters on duty.
The Directorate General of the Environment, also worked on the device with two forest fire-fighting crews.
The police reinforcement was also to double patrols in the municipal service, to control the fires and support fire crews.
In addition to interventions motivated by the night of San Juan, firefighters had been called to extinguish a fire in the Cafeteria Tehany, Circle of Santa Ana, which suffered a fire in the kitchen motivated by a deep fryer oil.
The numbers of interventions were slightly higher than previous years, recorded in the year 2008 32 firefighters and 34 outlets in 2007.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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